These are this morning’s top day trader and active trader alerts seen in the pre-market trading hours.  We also included some options color from yesterday.  A link has been provided for more detailed analysis and data for each stock over at VSInvestor.com: American International Group, Inc. ... Read more

FINTAG COMMENT Hold my hand. Today I steer you through the extraordinary turn of events that is making the last 2 years a bad dream. We have disgraced Fred Goodwin back, Madoff out of prison, credit funds in vogue and the ratings agencies are back in favor. Not only that but AIG is back in the bl ... Read more

American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) looks to be in the soup again.  Reports of two top executives in Paris quitting the firm may leave AIG with a big black hole that could end up triggering defaults in vast amounts in trading contracts.  This is far from certain, but the amount b ... Read more

Our government paid $173 billion for 80% of AIG, . Our Congresspeople are outraged over $165 million of bonuses. There's a lot more to be outraged over -- like who got the $173 billion. At the top of the list -- surprise, surprise -- is Goldman Sachs, the same place our previous Treasury Secretary H ... Read more

Before I sign-off for the week, I had to post a funny video. John Oliver from TDS at an AIG protest...well, kind of. And watch closely at the 1:30 mark and you will see Dinosaur Trader make a cameo. Follow the link below for video posted by Trader X. ... Read the full post ... Read more

Was the (very justified) outrage over the AIG bonuses a clever ruse to mask what to me feels like a much bigger reason for outrage, the AIG related bailout of Goldman and Friends. OK, trying to wrap my hands about this whole AIG counterparty bailout sham. This from Barry the other day. The ... Read more

AIG (AIG) seems to enjoy its position as the whipping boy for Wall Street. They announce a list of counter-parties who benefited from the billions that were pumped into AIG. The outrage from the financial press just plays to the hysteria. Solving the AIG dilemma is like solving cancer of the blood ... Read more

That's the message from President Obama, who has instructed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to "pursue every legal avenue" to block $165 million in bonuses that the bailed out insurer plans to pay executives who were in part responsible for the company's near collapse. ... Read the ... Read more